Your critical failures? Anyone?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
wow. good link. I've never seen that one, and i thought i've seen all the links... will read it thoroughly after awhile...
 
the person on that link mentions one critical failure. "lomax" on cichlid forums. I've seen him around and heard he had a failure but i've never read in depth about it. always gotta do MFK first!

anyway, his "critical failure" is when putting in the large glass section he dug the corner into the epoxy and ruptured it, rendering it unusable without a patchover. This is not a catastrophic failure, but certainly one to be remembered.

anyone else wanna chime in? give me all the failure stories...
 
My plywood tank (purchased from someone else) failed due to temperature fluctuations when it was empty. The epoxy cracked, and ruined it. It was built like a tank too.

Not catastrophic, but certainly could be if the fish suffered because of it.
 
I've had joint failures on the 1st two tanks that I built, but I avoided disaster because I noticed some crazing early on and monitored it closely. When the joints started to fail, I just moved my fish, and retired the tanks. In both cases, I was probably lucky that there was no critical failure. Both of these tanks used the minimum thickness recommended and they only lasted about 2 years each.
I like to save a buck as much as the next guy, but when it comes to big tanks I think you have to consider the long-term costs of going the cheap route because the tank will start wearing down after a year or 2. If you do it right the 1st time, the tank will last 20 years. The money spent on the extra glass thickness will be the best investment you ever made.
 
you said joint failure but then said dont skimp on glass thickness. are you talking about 2 separate issues, or building an all glass tank?
ty for the reply btw. do you have threads to the situations you're talking about?
 
lol. wtf, my post sounds like english isn't my first language..and it's my ONLY language..lol
 
oooh..hehe. you put 2 and 2 together and knew what i was up to eh? :) nice.

i've just never seen a thread where someone is like "well my underbuilt tank ruptured in the middle of the night and 700 gallons ended up on the floor and the dog ate 57 of my fish and the wife divorced me" or whatever... that leads me to believe that every tank is almost surely overbuilt...

edit: btw, thank for link, i'm all over it...
 
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